By Gianugo Rabellino Senior Director Open Source Communities Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.
As I write this, I’m exploring the public preview of VM Depot , a new service from Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. VM Depot is a community-driven...

by hjanssen on April 16, 2007 04:04pm A few weeks ago I wrote a blog called ‘ We're Writing Firefox Plug-ins? Interview with Ian Gilman and Thoughts on 10 Months at Microsoft’ (Who came up with that title anyway!) In which I chronicled my first 10 months...

(This blog was originally posted on our Interoperability blog )
As a proud member of the Apache Software Foundation , it’s always great to see the growth and adoption of Apache community projects. The Apache Hadoop project is a prime example...

by Peter Galli on May 10, 2010 11:38am More good news on the Interoperability front: the new phpBB release is now available for installation from the Windows Web Application Gallery and Web Platform Installer (Web PI) for Windows, IIS and SQL Server....

I am pleased to announce that Microsoft has joined Joyent and Ryan Dahl in their effort to make Windows a supported platform in Node.
Our first goal is to add a high-performance IOCP API to Node to give developers the same high-performance/scalability...

by Bryan Kirschner on December 04, 2007 08:10pm There’s been a flurry of articles and blogs about Microsoft’s open source strategy lately, spurred in part by an interview with Bill Hilf ( Zachary Rodriques Connolly …and a comment from davidmeyer on my...

Today Bill Laing, Corporate VP for Server and Cloud, announced a very important set of Windows Azure updates. With these new updates, Windows Azure is more than ever an open and easy platform to build and run applications in the cloud, and the place to...

We are just days away from reaching a significant milestone for our team and the open source and open standards communities: the first anniversary of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech) -- a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft.
We can’t...

From Jean Paoli
Since we launched Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech) as a subsidiary , project ideas have poured into our team from inside and outside the company as we shipped many open source projects and participated in many open standards...

by MichaelF on August 10, 2006 12:10pm
The second person we interviewed during the LANG.NET symposium is John Lam. John is the creator of RubyCLR and most recently he created an Avalon Ruby Editor (we capture a short demo near the end of this video...

Microsoft and The Open Group have announced the release of Open Management Infrastructure (OMI), an open source project to further the development of a production quality implementation of the DMTF CIM and WBEM standards. The Windows Management team has...

Here is great news for open source developers: Brian Harry announced today at the Microsoft’s ALM Summit that Git is now fully integrated into Visual Studio as well as the Team Foundation Service , Microsoft’s cloud-powered Application Lifecycle...

by Peter Galli on November 13, 2009 11:24am As you've likely read and as was originally reported here , we've been investigating a report that the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, might contain GPLv2 code. The WUDT is a free tool that was offered...

by Peter Galli on July 06, 2009 12:27pm I have some good news to announce: Microsoft will be applying the Community Promise to the ECMA 334 and ECMA 335 specs . ECMA 334 specifies the form and establishes the interpretation of programs written in the...

Today, at BSDCan 2012 , Microsoft and partners NetApp and Citrix announced upcoming native support for FreeBSD support on Windows Server Hyper-V.
This move continues our commitment to extend support across platforms to the Windows Server Hyper-V solution...

If you’re at OSCON 2012 this week, drop by the Microsoft booth (#601) – we’d love to see you!
We have many members of the MS Open Tech team here, as well as OSCON attendees from a variety of Microsoft teams and product groups who...

More Open Source goodness from Microsoft today, with the announcement that we are open sourcing ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) - all with contributions - under the Apache 2.0 license.
You can find the source on CodePlex...

I've been involved with open source software for just shy of 15 years now. During that time I've seen open source software become a fundamental part of technology innovation. It is that technology innovation that has fed me and my family for many years...

In case you missed it, I just wanted to flag this blog from Jean Paoli:
I am really excited to be able to share with you today that Microsoft has announced a new wholly owned subsidiary known as Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., to advance the company’s...

by MichaelF on August 07, 2006 12:30pm
Last week Microsoft hosted the LANG.NET symposium in Redmond. From the program: "The conference program will focus on the pragmatics and experience of designing languages, implementing compilers, and building...

I recently returned from Paris, where I attended both the annual Open Source Think Tank and Open World Forum events. It was really great getting to chat with some of the folks representing the myriad of businesses that have sprung up around Open Source...

Any time you can open up a platform to more options for interoperability, it’s a great thing. It’s even better if the platform is as popular as Apache Hadoop and the new option is one that has been accepted as a popular choice. And earlier...

by MichaelF on October 13, 2006 05:57pm
Today we are introducing Cyril Voisin, Security Advisor for Microsoft in France where he has worked for 9 years. Cyril is a CISSP (Certified Information Security Systems Professional) and along with his work...

by Sam Ramji on July 25, 2008 06:16am I’m writing this from Portland, Oregon where one of the world’s largest Open Source conferences is taking place: OSCON. This year’s event is focused on a theme of “ten years of open source,” referring to 1998...

Today Microsoft announced the release of the TypeScript preview , a new open and interoperable language for application scale JavaScript development. The TypeScript compiler is available as open source on CodePlex .
TypeScript is a typed superset of...